A scheming courtesan ✖️ a straight-laced judge of the Underworld
When she was alive, Wei Zhang saved her from a living hell, and she repaid him with her life.
After five years in the Underworld, she ran into a powerful enemy and decided to seek help from the man who had once saved her. After all, he was kind, influential, and well-connected.
When they met again, he tied her up!
What a heartless man!
Wait, something was wrong. How could he have forgotten everything that happened when they were alive?
What a heartless man!!
She’d just have to seduce him all over again.
She plotted her every move, weaving herself into his every gesture and action, convinced she’d won his heart.
But just when she was about to seal the deal, he found out the truth.
“That night, when I was drunk and took liberties with you, did you tamper with something?”
“At the horse race, did you tear your own clothes to trick me into coming over?”
“And all those days and nights in the library, were you just pretending?”
As the man before her listed all the things that had happened, Xiao Jiu laughed aloud. Her unscrupulous ways had finally come back to bite her.
“Yes. I could already ride a horse. I only asked you to teach me so I could get close to you. And I’m not afraid of the dark, either. I only asked you to come with me to the library so I could get close to you. And there’s something else you don’t know: I can hold my liquor just fine. That day in the carriage, I touched you on purpose. What else do you want to know?” She spoke with such easy candor.
Watching him walk away, she smiled. But as she kept smiling, she tasted bitterness at the corner of her mouth.
So even the dead could feel heartache.
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